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Join author, academic and historian Kiera Lindsey as she discusses her book 'The Convict’s Daughter', the fascinating biography of a ‘currency lass’ who was at the centre of Australia’s most scandalous abduction trial in the colonial period.

In 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill slipped out of a bedroom window in her father’s Sydney hotel to elope with James Butler Kinchela, the wayward son of a former Attorney-General. Her enraged father pursued the two lovers on horseback and fired two pistols at his daughter’s suitor, narrowly avoiding killing him.

Through careful research Kiera Lindsey has uncovered the world of her feisty great, great, great aunt who lived and loved during a period of dramatic social and political change.

Books will be available for purchase on the night.

This event is free. Enquiries: 9093 6400

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